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Announcement - BELIEF II and CASPAR Brainstorming workshop on data provenance Titania hotel, Athens, the workshop venue Image courtesy of titania.gr  1st BELIEF II and CASPAR Brainstorming workshopSustainable e-Infrastructures: Challenges in data provenance and authenticityVenue: Athens, GreeceDates: 6-7 April 2009Workshop Web site and registration This first BELIEF II Brainstorming workshop, held in collaboration with CASPAR Project, will tackle the topic of Data Provenance. This was one of the most important outcomes of the 6th eConcertation meeting co-organised by the European Commission - DG INFSO/F3 GÉANT & e-Infrastructure Unit with the support of the BELIEF-II project, which took place last November. The joint BELIEF II & CASPAR Brainstorming workshop will consist of a mixture of presentations and discussions addressing several aspects around Provenance of Scientific Data: Authentication, Annotation, Archiving, etc. The workshop aims to tackle the issues above by bringing together participants from sever

Announcement - Student participation in TeraGrid 2009 Image courtesy of TeraGrid  High school, undergraduate and graduate students are invited to participate in TeraGrid 2009 as volunteers, by submitting posters, and by competing in a programming contest.Venue: Arlington, Virginia Dates: TeraGrid '09: 22-25 June 2009Register as volunteer: by 15 May 2009Submit poster: by 15 April 2009Register a team for programming contest: by 15 April 2009 Contacts:Volunteers:  Jenett TillotsonPosters:  Scott Lathrop or Edee Norman WizieckiProgramming contest: Charlie Peck This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view iThe 2009 TeraGrid conference to be held June 22-25 in Arlington, Virginia, will showcase the capabilities, achievements, and impact of this national network of high-performance computing resources. Students from high school through graduate programs

Announcement - Grid computing school: Emerging grid middleware standards Chapelle de Saint Lambert-des-BoisImage courtesy of Panoramio  Through lectures, hands-on sessions and a selection of focused conferences, this school will give attendees the opportunity to:understand the basics of grid computing,get acquainted with the different mechanisms of gridsbe aware of challenges and scientific perspectives of grid usageuse grid environments and port their own application onto a grid infrastructureSponsors:  CEA, EDF, INRIAVenue: Centre Port-Royal, Saint Lambert-des-Bois (78470) France Dates: Grid computing school: 8-19 June 2009Registration closes: 30 May 2009 Web site Register ContactThis school is designed for computational scientists and end users from any application discipline as well as for computer scientists in the field of distributed systems. Some background in programming and computer science is the only prerequisite.Grid beginners are welcome, as are people already involved in grid projects. Both groups will be

Announcement - Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing: call for papers Corporate logo design by Designal! Karlsruhe  Event: Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing, (VHPC'09) to be held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2009 Venue: Delft, The Netherlands Dates: VHPC workshop: 25 August 2009Abstracts due: 12 March 2009Full papers due: 8 June 2009Notifications of acceptance: 14 July 2009Camera ready version due: 3 August 2009Submission information: Format (LNCS)Submission link   Registration (handled by Euro-Par 2009) and hotel information Virtualization has  become a common  abstraction layer in  modern data centers,  enabling resource  owners to  manage  complex infrastructure independently  of their  applications.   The cloud  concept includes the  notion of  a separation  between resource owners  and   users,  adding  services  such   as  hosted  application frameworks 

  Image of the week - An up-Lift-ing conference Image courtesy of Lift09 Geneva, Switzerland's, upcoming "Lift09 Conference" sounds like Woodstock but with a 21st century twist: Three days of "change, solidarity, love . . . and intense networking . . ."Running from 25 to 27 February, and featuring entrepreneurs, artists, managers, researchers, investors, CEOs, designers and ethnologists (and speakers such as iSGTW contributor Francois Grey and CERN's James Gillies), the conference's goal is to explore the social consequences of new technologies — such as the grid. This year's theme is 'Where did the future go?" The organizers ask: "We were told the future would be about mechanization, computerization, 1984-like nightmares or robots. What did and did not happen? What can we learn from the predictions that never materialized to better look at the future?" Among other items, the agenda features sessions on the relationship between science fiction

Announcement - eChallenges 21-23 October 2009: Call for papers Image courtesy of eChallenges 2009  eChallenges e-2009 Conference & Exhibition This is the nineteenth in a series of Annual eChallenges Conferences, supported by the European Commission, that regularly attracts over 650 delegates from leading commercial, government and research organizations around the world to share knowledge and experience, lessons learned and good practice.Conference dates: 21 - 23 October 2009Conference location: Istanbul, TurkeyCall for Papers  Submission deadline for Extended Abstracts: 27 February 2009Acceptance decision: 31 March 2009Submission of full paper: 30 April 2009 Registration About the program We are now inviting extended abstracts (1,200 - 1,500 words) for technical papers, visionary papers, business and government case studies. Proposals to arrange 90 minute workshop sessions are also welcome. Related themes and suggestions for papers and sessions are outlined in the eChallenges e-2009 will focus on Applied ICT rese

Announcement - Call for papers: NSF Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability Workshop University Place Conference Center & Hotel, Indianapolis, IN Image courtesy of universityplace.iupui.edu  Venue: University Place Conference Center on the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis campus in Indianapolis, Indiana.  Workshop dates: 26-27 March 2009 (informal reception on evening of 25 March) Paper submission deadline: 20 February 2009 (for invitation); 25 March (to contribute content) Workshop website Conference center websiteQuestions The workshop will focus on identifying strategies to create sustainable models for use, support, maintenance, and long-term sustainability of cyberinfrastructure software that is developed and used by research communities working in areas related to the National Science Foundation mission.  The implications are expected to be interesting and useful to the science and engineering community.  We invite the software and scientific community, and the general communit

Acronym of the week - EUCALYPTUS: an open source cloud architecture Rich Wolski wrapping up his keynote address at eScience 2008.  Image courtesy of eScience 2008Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems This mouthful-of-a-name came after the acronym, according to Rich Wolski, Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara and lead developer of EUCALYPTUS (and coiner of the cleverly appropriate full name).Wolski covered clouds, grids and the EUCALYPTUS architecture in his dynamic and forward-thinking keynote address last week at the eScience 2008 conference in Indianapolis. Before starting EUCALYPTUS, he said, the team investigated both grids and clouds. These architectures share the metaphor in which users connect to an opaque resource that delivers computing and storage capability.  Grids use networks to link to distributed resources operated by independent institutions, and “glue” them together via middleware. Clouds

Announcement - PRACE Winter school on petascale computing, Athens, Greece Image courtesy of PRACE  Event: Winter School on Petascale ComputingDates: 10-13 February 2009 Venue: Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE Academy) in Athens, GreeceSponsor:  PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in EuropeHosted by:  Greek Research and Technology Network with the contribution of the Aristotle University of Thessalonik Web site Registration Researchers and students from Europe and beyond are invited to receive advanced training in programming models and optimization techniques, MPI/OpenMP and hybrid programming and profiling. The first three days of the Winter School will focus on gaining a thorough understanding of these HPC (High Performance Computing) topics during morning lectures followed by hands-on training in the afternoon. The last day will be dedicated to a novel multiprocessor architecture, with all-day parallel lectures and hands-on training. Participation is limited to 40.  For details and co

Announcement - 2nd International winter school in grid computing Curl up with your computer at home this winter. Image courtesy of akvis.com  The 2nd International Winter School in Grid Computing (IWSGC’09) will bring together world experts and enthusiastic students. Important Dates:Applications open: 24 November 2008Applications close: 12 January 2009 School Dates: 16 February – 30 March 2009 (20 hours/week)Pre-course exercises open: 15 December 2008 – 22 January 2009 Venue: OnlineTarget audience: researchers from any country who have recently started or are about to start working on grid projectsContacts: [email protected] School Web site Sponsors: EGEE, OSG, OGF IWSGC’09 will examine the conceptual and practical underpinnings of today’s grids. Experts will provide practical exercises, discuss the challenges of building and sustaining e-Infrastructure, report its rapid influence on the way we research, design and make decisions. They will share their vision of the developments and challeng

Feature -  How to run a million jobs Image courtesy of David Abramson. At SC08, several experts organized an informal session to share information on up-and-coming solutions for expressing, managing, and executing “megajobs.” They also discussed ways of repackaging work to avoid megajobs altogether. Here iSGTW shares the latest ideas and developments about megajobs with its readers, and plans to follow up with articles on various mentioned technologies and trends in the coming months. Contributions are welcome.Biting off a megajob—it's a lot to chewAs large systems surpass 200,000 processors, more scientists are running “megajobs”, thousands to millions of identical or very similar, but independent, jobs executed on separate processors.  From biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics to genetics, mechanical engineering, economics and computational finance, researchers want an easy way to specify and manage many jobs, arrange inputs, and aggregate outputs. They want to readily identify

Announcement - Conference on Software Services and Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities technologies, 13-14 January 2009, Brussels Image courtesy of www.eu-ecss.eu  SSOKU09, 1st European Conference on Software Services and Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities technologiesDates: 13-14 January 2009Venue: Diamant Conference Centre, Brussels, BelgiumSponsors: the CHALLENGERS and ECSS European Funded Projects Cost: noneRegistration Deadline: 28 November, 2008, for both the submission of abstracts and application for free exhibition booth.Event Web siteContact: [email protected] SSOKU09 aims to gather over 200 experts in the fields of Software & Services and SOKU, including high level researchers, top industrial and political representatives from the European Commission and from national authorities. It will provide a forum to discuss the future of Grids & Software and Service oriented Architectures as well as to evaluate the findings presented in the results of the ECSS White Paper on Software and Service Architectures, Inf